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44.‘lt AUGUSTANA
MIRROR.
October 9, 1950
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. VOL. XXXII—NO. 4
Expectant Augie Awaits 27th Viking Days
Seven Girls Will Reign
Over Three-Day Event
Electric expectation fills the air as Augustana awaits the
unwrapping of the 27th homecoming and the revelation of
the Viking Queen, Friday at 8 p. m. in the gym-auditorium..
Girls who will form the royal coterie and from whom
the monarch will be chosen, include Betty Smith, Bertha-may
Ofstad, Wanda Severson, Charlotte Ellison, Marie Mev-ik,
Carolyn Kvernes and Ramona Ode.
The above royalty will pre-side
over the three day event
Astrid Varnay
Presents First
Civic Concert
Astrid Varnay, a Swedish-Am-erican
soprano, will present the
first Sioux Falls Civic Music con-cert,
Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Miss Varnay has been heard in
13 starring roles of the Wagner
repertoire which is more than any
other artist has done in the entire
history of the Metropolitan. She
is the youngest soprano ever to
have impersonated Isolde, the
three Bruennhildes, and the other
Astrid Varnay
great Wagner heroines with any
major opera company of the
world.
Grew Up With Music
The daughter of a musical
couple, Miss Varnay grew up in
an atmosphere of great music.
From her mother, the noted col-oratura,
Maria Javor, she received
the gift of a fine natural voice
and instruction in how to use and
conserve that voice. Her father
was a Hungarian dramatic tenor
who gave up singing to become
regisseur of the Royal Opera in
Stockholm and of the opera house
in Oslo.
For want of a properly trained
nursemaid, Miss Varnay was often
brought along to performances
and rehearsals. No toys were need-ed
to keep her quiet, for she would
sit for hours in the second or
third row of the darkened audi-torium,
completely enthalled by
the proceedings onstage and in
the pit.
"I think that during that period
I must have subconsiously mem-orized
most of the soprano roles
of the standard repertoire." Miss
Varney says today.
Pinch-Hit for Lehmann
At the age of 22, Miss Varnay
had her first big chance, when
the world-famous Lotte Lehmann
Leff ill only a few hours before
she was scheduled to appear as
Sieglande in a matinee perform-ance
of "Die Walkuere" to be
broadcast around the world. Miss
Varnay was asked to pinch-hit and
gave "one of the most satisfying
and convincing portrayals the sea-son
had brought forth."
Included in her concert will be
arias from "Tannhauser" and
"Aida." She will also sing selec-tions
by Grieg and Schubert.
Placement Bureau
Releases Report
Augustana's placement bureau
has just released its annual report
for the year from Oct. 1, 1949 to
Sept. 30, 1950, concerning the
teaching field.
There were 908 teaching vacan-cies
reported to the bureau, in-cluding
positions in grade and
high schools. Elementary posi-tions
accounted for 428 of these,
a number slightly lower than last
year.
Teach at Least Two Subjects
Of the vacancies reported three-sevenths
were for teachers in one
field, the remainder was for
teachers to instruct in at least two
subjects. Some of the smaller
schools wanted teachers who
could handle three or four fields.
This is significant since begin-ing
teachers usually find their
first jobs in a smaller school.
In the elementary vacancies
combinations of grades one and
two, three and four, and five and
six were common. Secondary
school vacancies for English, com-mercial
and music majors were the
largest. There were several vacan-cies
for English majors with min-ors
in dramatics, library, speech or
music, and for music majors with
minors in English.
Average $2400
Most South Dakota high schools
pay $2400 for the beginning teach-
(Cont'd. on Page 4)
Nat. Poetry Announces
College Competition
The National Poetry association
announces the seventh annual
poetry contest.
Closing date for submission of
manuscripts is Sunday, Nov. 5.
Any student attending either a
junior or senior college is eligible
to submit his verse. Thera are no
requirements as to form or theme.
Short works are preferred by the
board of judges, because of space
limitations.
Each poem must be typed or
printed on a separate sheet of pa-per,
and must bear the name and
home address of the author, as
well as the name of college at-tended
and the college year.
There are no fees or charges
for either acceptance or submis-sion
of verse. All work will be
judged on merit alone.
Manuscripts should be sent to
the National Poetry Association,
3210 Selby Ave., Los Angeles,
34, Calif.
Musicians Give
Recitals Tuesday
Beginning tomorrow afternoon,
Tuesday, Oct. 10, the music de-partment
is inaugurating a series
of weekly recitals.
All recitals Will be held in Old
Main chapel at 4:30 p. m.
Tomorrow's recitalists will in-clude
the following: Marlene Kapp
and Betty Smithburg, pianists;
Hazel Sogge, soprano, Mary Lee
Syverson, soprano; and Neil Raber,
tenor; and David Cunningham,
violinist.
Music majors and minors are
expected to be present at the re-citals,.
Shaw Play Opens
Oct. 30 for Week
Rehearsals have gone into full
swing on "Arms and the Man"
to be presented for the students
and public Oct. 30. It will run for
seven performances.
As yet the committees whcih
will produce, costume, publicize
and sell tickets for the play are
only tentatively chosen. A com-plete
list will, however, appear in
next week's MIRROR.
The play, the first of the year,
is a comedy-satire on romance
and war written by the English
playwright, George Bernard Shaw,
According to E. C. Mundt, direc-tor,
it should appeal to all types
of audiences.
Civil Service Recruits
Science Majors for US
The federal civil service com-mission.
has launched a program
to recruit outstanding business ad-ministration
and social science
majors into junior managing posi-tions
in the U. S. government.
Students interested in applying
for the examination should notify
Carl H. Chrislock, instructor in
political science. The examination,
for those interested in public ser-vice
and administrative work, is
tentatively planned for December,
1950. The exact time is to be an-nounced
in the near future.
The applicants accepted through
this test are earmarked for future
administrative and supervisory
positions in the top echelons of
civil service.
Registration Set
Al 774 Students
The school year of 1950-51 finds
774 students enrolled at Aug-us-tam.
The senior class claims 139
of these students with an enroll-ment
of 98 men and 41 women.
The junior class is composed of
90 men and 41 women making a
total of 131.
The sophomores have a class of
equal distribution. They compose
a total of 154 with 77 men and 77
women. Thirty three of these
students are working for state
certificates.
The freshmen stand out with the
largest class enrollment. They
have a total of 264 students which
includes 161 men and 103 women.
Forty-six of these women are en-rolled
in the two year normal
course. Two hundred and fifty of
the group are here at Augie for
the first time.
Part time students, composed
of those having less than 12 hours
of classes, number 27.
Student nurses make a group
of 59. Seventeen of these nurses
took work at Augustana during
the summer of 1950. Forty two
nurses are here for the first
time.
Eighty-nine veterans are en-rolled
this year. Thirty-eight are
seniors, 24 juniors, 9 sophomores,
14 freshmen and 4 part time
students.
This group of students is sure
to make this year a most success-ful
year.
which will be held Friday, Sat-urday
and Sunday of this week.
The coronation program will
also include numbers by the Au-gustana
a ,capella choir. George
Cukors, formerly of Latvia, is de-signing
and building the set: Phil
Natwick and Carolyn Kveroes
are in charge of this part of the
homecoming program.
Following the coronation,
the queen will light the torch
of the 14 foot statue of Ole,
built by George Cukors, Bob
Aldern and Darrell Erickson.
The traditional pilgrimage 'to
the south "40" will then be led
by the royalty and the pep band.
There the band will be joined by
the cheerleaders who will lead the
student body in the school yells.
Delores Wennblom is in charge of
this feature.
About 10 p.m., a reception wilt
be held in the gym for the public
to meet the queen and her at-tendants.
Sophomore honors and
other awards will be announced
Bob Nervig, homecoming
chairman announced last
week that a pep rally link
been planned for the stuff i
body meeting Friday morning.
The pep band and the cheer-leaders
will augment the stu-dents
in the rally.
Saturday's schedule includes
the society luncheons, coffee hour
and barbecue in the afternoon, and
the Augie-Morningside game with
the pre-game ceremonies and the
traditional half-time fireworks.
Sunday will feature the services
in the various churches around
the city, the open-house and tea
in the dorms and the homecoming
candlelight service. After the
service the queen will extinguish
the light in Ole's torch.
Helping Nervig with the home-coming
are Francis Smith, who
is handling publicity and Bob
Aldern, art director. Milt Kud-lacek
is writing the souvenir book
and Bob Barker is handing the
advertising for the homecoming
program.
Department Lists
Band Personnel
Prof. Richard Guderyahn has
announced that the following
students are members of the Ail-g-
ustana college band;
Milton Anderson, Angeline Aus-,
land, Art Berthelsen, Lois Bring-gold,
Don Brosz, Lavonne Camp-bell,
Charles Christopherson, Ger-ald
Christopherson, Marie Conger.
Gordon Dahl, Margo Dittman,
Richard Engel, Denise Felhaber,,
Mary Fitzgerald, Shirley Gonstead,
Al Graps, Bob Griffith, Bob Hass,
June Haugen, Lois Huso.
Dale Jamtgaard, Bob Johnson,
Larry Johnson, Myrtle Johnson,
Pat Johnson, Vivian Jorgenson,
Charles Josephson, Lois Knutson,
Richard Knutson.
Leland Lillenberg, Lois Lind,
Ardis Lindflott, John McIntyre,
John Michael, John Moe, Joan
Mortenson, Ruth Olson, Bill Perry,
Neil Raber, Ron Richardson.
Marie Sandal, Janis Sabimke;
Allen Schoon, Norman Soyland,
Marilyn Sunde, Benny Thompson,
Annette Weisenberger, Eldora
Westphal, Dorothy Windh.
Trio Ready Ole for Homecoming
't
PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES on the 14-foot
paper mache statue of Ole the Viking are Darrell Erickson
on the ladder while Dzintars (Georges) Cukors and Bob Al-dern
work on Ole's boots. The statue was built from a clay
model designed by Hugo Lutz, former Augie student now do-ing
advanced work at Syracuse university.

44.‘lt AUGUSTANA
MIRROR.
October 9, 1950
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. VOL. XXXII—NO. 4
Expectant Augie Awaits 27th Viking Days
Seven Girls Will Reign
Over Three-Day Event
Electric expectation fills the air as Augustana awaits the
unwrapping of the 27th homecoming and the revelation of
the Viking Queen, Friday at 8 p. m. in the gym-auditorium..
Girls who will form the royal coterie and from whom
the monarch will be chosen, include Betty Smith, Bertha-may
Ofstad, Wanda Severson, Charlotte Ellison, Marie Mev-ik,
Carolyn Kvernes and Ramona Ode.
The above royalty will pre-side
over the three day event
Astrid Varnay
Presents First
Civic Concert
Astrid Varnay, a Swedish-Am-erican
soprano, will present the
first Sioux Falls Civic Music con-cert,
Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Miss Varnay has been heard in
13 starring roles of the Wagner
repertoire which is more than any
other artist has done in the entire
history of the Metropolitan. She
is the youngest soprano ever to
have impersonated Isolde, the
three Bruennhildes, and the other
Astrid Varnay
great Wagner heroines with any
major opera company of the
world.
Grew Up With Music
The daughter of a musical
couple, Miss Varnay grew up in
an atmosphere of great music.
From her mother, the noted col-oratura,
Maria Javor, she received
the gift of a fine natural voice
and instruction in how to use and
conserve that voice. Her father
was a Hungarian dramatic tenor
who gave up singing to become
regisseur of the Royal Opera in
Stockholm and of the opera house
in Oslo.
For want of a properly trained
nursemaid, Miss Varnay was often
brought along to performances
and rehearsals. No toys were need-ed
to keep her quiet, for she would
sit for hours in the second or
third row of the darkened audi-torium,
completely enthalled by
the proceedings onstage and in
the pit.
"I think that during that period
I must have subconsiously mem-orized
most of the soprano roles
of the standard repertoire." Miss
Varney says today.
Pinch-Hit for Lehmann
At the age of 22, Miss Varnay
had her first big chance, when
the world-famous Lotte Lehmann
Leff ill only a few hours before
she was scheduled to appear as
Sieglande in a matinee perform-ance
of "Die Walkuere" to be
broadcast around the world. Miss
Varnay was asked to pinch-hit and
gave "one of the most satisfying
and convincing portrayals the sea-son
had brought forth."
Included in her concert will be
arias from "Tannhauser" and
"Aida." She will also sing selec-tions
by Grieg and Schubert.
Placement Bureau
Releases Report
Augustana's placement bureau
has just released its annual report
for the year from Oct. 1, 1949 to
Sept. 30, 1950, concerning the
teaching field.
There were 908 teaching vacan-cies
reported to the bureau, in-cluding
positions in grade and
high schools. Elementary posi-tions
accounted for 428 of these,
a number slightly lower than last
year.
Teach at Least Two Subjects
Of the vacancies reported three-sevenths
were for teachers in one
field, the remainder was for
teachers to instruct in at least two
subjects. Some of the smaller
schools wanted teachers who
could handle three or four fields.
This is significant since begin-ing
teachers usually find their
first jobs in a smaller school.
In the elementary vacancies
combinations of grades one and
two, three and four, and five and
six were common. Secondary
school vacancies for English, com-mercial
and music majors were the
largest. There were several vacan-cies
for English majors with min-ors
in dramatics, library, speech or
music, and for music majors with
minors in English.
Average $2400
Most South Dakota high schools
pay $2400 for the beginning teach-
(Cont'd. on Page 4)
Nat. Poetry Announces
College Competition
The National Poetry association
announces the seventh annual
poetry contest.
Closing date for submission of
manuscripts is Sunday, Nov. 5.
Any student attending either a
junior or senior college is eligible
to submit his verse. Thera are no
requirements as to form or theme.
Short works are preferred by the
board of judges, because of space
limitations.
Each poem must be typed or
printed on a separate sheet of pa-per,
and must bear the name and
home address of the author, as
well as the name of college at-tended
and the college year.
There are no fees or charges
for either acceptance or submis-sion
of verse. All work will be
judged on merit alone.
Manuscripts should be sent to
the National Poetry Association,
3210 Selby Ave., Los Angeles,
34, Calif.
Musicians Give
Recitals Tuesday
Beginning tomorrow afternoon,
Tuesday, Oct. 10, the music de-partment
is inaugurating a series
of weekly recitals.
All recitals Will be held in Old
Main chapel at 4:30 p. m.
Tomorrow's recitalists will in-clude
the following: Marlene Kapp
and Betty Smithburg, pianists;
Hazel Sogge, soprano, Mary Lee
Syverson, soprano; and Neil Raber,
tenor; and David Cunningham,
violinist.
Music majors and minors are
expected to be present at the re-citals,.
Shaw Play Opens
Oct. 30 for Week
Rehearsals have gone into full
swing on "Arms and the Man"
to be presented for the students
and public Oct. 30. It will run for
seven performances.
As yet the committees whcih
will produce, costume, publicize
and sell tickets for the play are
only tentatively chosen. A com-plete
list will, however, appear in
next week's MIRROR.
The play, the first of the year,
is a comedy-satire on romance
and war written by the English
playwright, George Bernard Shaw,
According to E. C. Mundt, direc-tor,
it should appeal to all types
of audiences.
Civil Service Recruits
Science Majors for US
The federal civil service com-mission.
has launched a program
to recruit outstanding business ad-ministration
and social science
majors into junior managing posi-tions
in the U. S. government.
Students interested in applying
for the examination should notify
Carl H. Chrislock, instructor in
political science. The examination,
for those interested in public ser-vice
and administrative work, is
tentatively planned for December,
1950. The exact time is to be an-nounced
in the near future.
The applicants accepted through
this test are earmarked for future
administrative and supervisory
positions in the top echelons of
civil service.
Registration Set
Al 774 Students
The school year of 1950-51 finds
774 students enrolled at Aug-us-tam.
The senior class claims 139
of these students with an enroll-ment
of 98 men and 41 women.
The junior class is composed of
90 men and 41 women making a
total of 131.
The sophomores have a class of
equal distribution. They compose
a total of 154 with 77 men and 77
women. Thirty three of these
students are working for state
certificates.
The freshmen stand out with the
largest class enrollment. They
have a total of 264 students which
includes 161 men and 103 women.
Forty-six of these women are en-rolled
in the two year normal
course. Two hundred and fifty of
the group are here at Augie for
the first time.
Part time students, composed
of those having less than 12 hours
of classes, number 27.
Student nurses make a group
of 59. Seventeen of these nurses
took work at Augustana during
the summer of 1950. Forty two
nurses are here for the first
time.
Eighty-nine veterans are en-rolled
this year. Thirty-eight are
seniors, 24 juniors, 9 sophomores,
14 freshmen and 4 part time
students.
This group of students is sure
to make this year a most success-ful
year.
which will be held Friday, Sat-urday
and Sunday of this week.
The coronation program will
also include numbers by the Au-gustana
a ,capella choir. George
Cukors, formerly of Latvia, is de-signing
and building the set: Phil
Natwick and Carolyn Kveroes
are in charge of this part of the
homecoming program.
Following the coronation,
the queen will light the torch
of the 14 foot statue of Ole,
built by George Cukors, Bob
Aldern and Darrell Erickson.
The traditional pilgrimage 'to
the south "40" will then be led
by the royalty and the pep band.
There the band will be joined by
the cheerleaders who will lead the
student body in the school yells.
Delores Wennblom is in charge of
this feature.
About 10 p.m., a reception wilt
be held in the gym for the public
to meet the queen and her at-tendants.
Sophomore honors and
other awards will be announced
Bob Nervig, homecoming
chairman announced last
week that a pep rally link
been planned for the stuff i
body meeting Friday morning.
The pep band and the cheer-leaders
will augment the stu-dents
in the rally.
Saturday's schedule includes
the society luncheons, coffee hour
and barbecue in the afternoon, and
the Augie-Morningside game with
the pre-game ceremonies and the
traditional half-time fireworks.
Sunday will feature the services
in the various churches around
the city, the open-house and tea
in the dorms and the homecoming
candlelight service. After the
service the queen will extinguish
the light in Ole's torch.
Helping Nervig with the home-coming
are Francis Smith, who
is handling publicity and Bob
Aldern, art director. Milt Kud-lacek
is writing the souvenir book
and Bob Barker is handing the
advertising for the homecoming
program.
Department Lists
Band Personnel
Prof. Richard Guderyahn has
announced that the following
students are members of the Ail-g-
ustana college band;
Milton Anderson, Angeline Aus-,
land, Art Berthelsen, Lois Bring-gold,
Don Brosz, Lavonne Camp-bell,
Charles Christopherson, Ger-ald
Christopherson, Marie Conger.
Gordon Dahl, Margo Dittman,
Richard Engel, Denise Felhaber,,
Mary Fitzgerald, Shirley Gonstead,
Al Graps, Bob Griffith, Bob Hass,
June Haugen, Lois Huso.
Dale Jamtgaard, Bob Johnson,
Larry Johnson, Myrtle Johnson,
Pat Johnson, Vivian Jorgenson,
Charles Josephson, Lois Knutson,
Richard Knutson.
Leland Lillenberg, Lois Lind,
Ardis Lindflott, John McIntyre,
John Michael, John Moe, Joan
Mortenson, Ruth Olson, Bill Perry,
Neil Raber, Ron Richardson.
Marie Sandal, Janis Sabimke;
Allen Schoon, Norman Soyland,
Marilyn Sunde, Benny Thompson,
Annette Weisenberger, Eldora
Westphal, Dorothy Windh.
Trio Ready Ole for Homecoming
't
PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES on the 14-foot
paper mache statue of Ole the Viking are Darrell Erickson
on the ladder while Dzintars (Georges) Cukors and Bob Al-dern
work on Ole's boots. The statue was built from a clay
model designed by Hugo Lutz, former Augie student now do-ing
advanced work at Syracuse university.